Fountain bath-brush.



' WITNESSES:

No. 878,594. PATENTED FEB. 11, 1908.

W. E. ALLEN.

. FOUNTAIN BATH BRUSH.

, APPLICATION FILED FEB.15, 1906.

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WILLARD E. ALLEN, OF TOLEDO, OHIO,

FOUNTAIN BlUffH-BRUSH No. manna.

"Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improveinent Fountain Bath-Brushes, of which the following is a specification.

idy lnvention relates to a iountain bath brush, and has for its object to provide a simple, inexpensive and convenient device of the kind, the several parts of which are separable for convenience of packing and carriage, i

and that is adapted for use either with all the parts assembled or with one or more of the parts omitted, the several forms of assemblage being respectively adapted to render the device more convenient of application to different parts of the body, and that is also adapted to the interchangeable use of brush bodies. I accornpiish these objects by construct'ing a brush of a number of separable parts as hereinafter described and illustrated in the drawings, in which Figure 1 is a view in side elevation partly in section of a brush constructed in accordance with. my invention. Fig. 2 is a top view of the same, and Fig". 3 is a perspective view of a brush body, removed from the holder, and with the bail pivotally attached thereto.

:In the drawings, 1 is an elliptical brush body adapted to fit Within an elliptical cup shaped metallic holder 2, formed of a suit-. able press'drawn blank, in a die adapted to form a rounded back portion 3, andan elliptical riin portion 4 adapted to receive'and closely fit around the brush body.

Central of the brush body is provided an orifice 5 adapted to receive the nozzle 6.

The nozzle 6 is of a diameter to pass freely through the-orifice 5, and is provided at one end with the radially erforated and flanged nozzle cap 7, and at the opposite end with a threaded reduced portion 8 form 1g a shoulder -9. The threaded reduced portion 8 is provided with a nut 10, having a diameter greater than-the orifice 5, and with an internally threaded hose nipple 11, adapted to be run down on the nut 10.

inner faces in diametric alinement transverse its central orifice, and at the nearest oppo- Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed February 15'. 1906- Serial No. 301.136.

Patented Feb. 1 1, 1908.

site points thereto, and with an orifice 14 located at one end at the the central orifice. The older rim 4 is-also provided with the sideorifices 15 in alinement with the orifices 13, and adapted to register therewith, and with the end orifice 16 adapted to register with the end orifice 14 of the brush body.

In the side orifices of either the brush body or the holder body, there is pivotally mountedthespring bail. 17, by thepivots18 projecting inward in alinement from the end portions of the bail arms 19,which are norrnally at a less distance a art than the shortest diameter of the brus body, and require to be sprung apart to insert the pivots into either the orifices 13 of the body or into the orifices 15 of the holder.

The bail 17 is provided with a central angled neck portion 20, from which spring, in a semi-ellipticalcurve, the arms 19, and'central through the neck is provided an interoint farthest from one-halt the brush body 0 the holder in I which latter position. the orifice 21 is in line with the end orifices 14 of the brush bodyand orifice 16 of the holder, in which position a handle 22, having a socket ferrule 23 'provided 'with a screw 24 rojecting axially therefrom at one end which is adapted t0.be

run into the threaded orifice 21 ofthe holderand the brush body, thereby securely attaching the handle to'both the holder and the brush body, and locking the bail, the holder, and the brush bodytogether in position for use. p

The several parts thus constructed are adapted to be all assembled together as a fountain brush, having a holder and a handle, as shownin Figs. 1 and 2; or partly assembled as a brush body ergluipped with-a handle, with the holder oinitte ,or as a brush holder and brush body, with the handle omitted and the bail ada ted to loop around the back of the hand hol ing the brush; or as a brush holder and brush body without the bail or handle; or as a brush having the bail attached as a hand loop' as shown in Fig. 3, with the handle and holder omitted; or as a prulshbody, without the holder, handle, or

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In all forms of assemblage of the parts where the holder is used, before the brush body I is inserted into the holder, the nipple 11 is re moved from the nozzle 6, and the nut 10 is run out on the threaded portion 8 a short 2 distance to form a shoulder for its outer end the orifice 1.4 at the end of the brush body.

I portion, whichbeing then inserted through the orifice 12 of the holder as the brush body i enters the holder, and the nipple 11 being 5 then run on the threaded ortion 8 projecting through the holder until the back of thei holder is compressed between the nipple l and the nut 10 as shown inFig. 1, the brush 5 body is then firmly secured in the holder. To 1 the brush body and holder thus assembled, l the bail may be added for use as a hand loop 1 by springing the arms 19 outward and inserting the pivots 18 into the side orifices 1-5; and i to the brush body and holder thus assembled, l when desired, the handle 22 maybe added by movimg the bail into position around the. end 01 the holder with the orifice 21 ol the neck 5 ol' the bail in register with the orifice 16 of i the holder, in which position the handle may i be attached by running the screw through 1 the registered orifices until the end of the I handle is compressed on the neck as shown 1 in Figs. 1 and 2.

11' it is desirable to use the brush body without the holder, the nozzle 6 may be attached thereto by first removing the nozzle cap 7, and, after inserting the nozzle through the orifice 5 from the back until the nut 10 is shouldered against the back, running the cap 7- on the nozzle again until it-is shouldered 5' tightly against the brush body. The nozzle being thus secured, the bail may be atl tached for use as a hand loop in like manner 1 'as described, by inserting the pivots 18 into I meut to the holder, by running the screw 24 through theorifiee 21 of-the bail neck into The parts b ing assembled in either of the forms described that is most convenient for the special application required, and the nipple .11 being suitably connected by a hose to a water supply under pressure, the brush in. readiness for use, and as required for other special application, parts may be attached or detached. brush bodies of like size and form, but having bristles ol" difi'erent quality may be interchangeably used with the other parts.

What I claim to be new 15, In a t'ountam bath brush, the combination I with the brush body 1, having the central orifice 5, ol' the nozzle 6, provided with the radially perforated flanged cap 7, and the threaded reduced portion 8, a nut 10 adapted to be run on the portion 8, and form a. shoulltis apparent that der, the holder 2, having the central orifice 12 to receive the threaded end portion 8 of l the nozzle, and a rim portion 4 adaptedto receive the brush body, and a nipple 11 adapted ed to be run on the projecting end portion 8, and con'ipress the back of the holder on the nut.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, tlns ltlthday ol Februarv, 1906.

Gnouon P. GREENIIALGH, HENRY CARITE. 

